Episode 44: Power On

Android Developers Backstage

Episode | Podcast

Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2016 21:26:31 +0000

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-MMFhRPYo-18/Vt2TtdFsGFI/AAAAAAAACpM/AtAKV8_E3So/s1600/IMG_20160210_100713%2B%25281%2529.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"> <img border="0" height="148" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-MMFhRPYo-18/Vt2TtdFsGFI/AAAAAAAACpM/AtAKV8_E3So/s320/IMG_20160210_100713%2B%25281%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chet, Ashish, Meghan, and Tor wait uncomfortably<br /> for the photograph to be taken</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> In this episode, Tor and Chet talk with Ashish Sharma and Meghan Desai from Project Volta, an initiative starting in the Android Lollipop release to improve Android battery life.<br /> <br /> Listen in to find out what kinds of things cause high battery usage and how you can make your apps better about conserving device power.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Subscribe to the <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/blogspot/AndroidDevelopersBackstage" target="_blank">podcast feed</a> or download the <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/androiddevelopers/android_developers_backstage/ADB%2044%20Power%20On.mp3" target="_blank">audio file</a> directly.<br /> <br /> <b>Relevant Links</b><br /> <b><br /></b><a href="https://github.com/google/battery-historian">Battery Historian</a><br /> <a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/job/JobScheduler.html"> Job Scheduler</a><br /> <b><br /></b><b>Tor</b>: <a href="http://google.com/+TorNorbye">google.com/+TorNorbye</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/tornorbye" target="_blank">@tornorbye</a><br /> <b>Chet</b>: <a href="http://google.com/+ChetHaase">google.com/+ChetHaase</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/chethaase" target="_blank">@chethaase</a></div> <img alt="" height="1" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/AndroidDevelopersBackstage/~4/3N_B0JELXPE" width="1" />